First Bitcoin, now AI: trashing the environment for little benefit beyond making a small number of people enormously wealthy. If the damage was visible, in the air or water, there'd be outrage. futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

"But but but what if AI finds a solution for the climate crisis, just around the corner? And we can pay for it with all the $hitcoins?! Checkmate, commies!"

I've always suspected that the argument "it's digital so it's better for the environment" isn't as clear cut as it seems, but that is absolutely shocking.